The phrase "authorities sight" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misinterpretation or typo, as "sight" does not fit contextually with "authorities." An example could be: "The authorities were on site to assess the situation."
Alternatives: "authorities' view" or "authorities' observation."
Protestant churches find themselves increasingly in the authorities' sights.
Other companies, including Google, are also reportedly in the French authorities' sights.
Sports stars are in the authorities' sights because they often use a tax scheme whereby they form image rights companies through which they are paid their sponsorship fees.
Société Générale and Crédit Agricole are also in the American authorities' sights for allegedly breaking sanctions and money-laundering, and will be keen to learn some useful lessons.
Even those with solid legal status may be affected by the tough new stance: overlapping and contradictory laws, and a centuries-old tradition of official bloody-mindedness, mean that once a suspect is in the authorities' sights, a crime can easily be found.Conversely, with a well-placed friend, and the right sum of money, official displeasure is seldom as bad in practice as it may seem in theory.
"This is real, this is the concern about the lone wolf," New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters after the arrests, while another anonymous official waxed taxonomical, distinguishing "lone wolves" from " known wolves" like the recent arrestees, who had been in the authorities' sights for some time.
As a small group of demonstrators torched the front door of Mexico's historic National Palace on Saturday night — with no authorities in sight — Mexico City police were busy grabbing and detaining civilians seemingly at random, sometimes blocks away from the plaza where the blaze took place.
The man, who could swim, was with friends who told authorities they lost sight of him when he was about 50 yards into the water, Los Angeles County Fire Department lifeguard specialist Lidia Barillas told KTLA-TV.
Instead, authorities set their sights on an indictment.
For the left, the term "fascist" lost its power in the 1970s, when it was sprayed on every authority figure in sight, from the Nixon-Kissinger White House to university provosts to the neighbourhood cop.
